“WOW! Again?”
The only thing I could muster to say after reading about the NBN fiasco. Seems like anything that Malacañang offers on the table, the opposition would grab it and throw it back together with a bomb attached to it… Don’t get me wrong, I am not pro-administration nor am I pro-opposition. I am just amused at reading about these things.
“I prefer a country run like hell by Filipinos to a country run like heaven by Americans. Because, however bad a Filipino government might be, we can always change it.” — Manuel L. Quezon
A famous quote by MLQ… and we took it literally. It had been more than 100 years and the direction we’re going is backwards. “Amusing,” I said? Well, I just got used to it. It was very annoying at first, then you get frustrated, then you just get used to seeing these things.
Look, we have a bigger number of turncoats in the government than the time the Japanese occupied us. Yet no lives are threatened just to turn to the other side. Just their positions, may it be elected or appointed. Our nation is not founded on principles anymore. Gone are the days of Quezon, Roxas and Magsaysay. Seems like the “kabataan” of their time did not fulfill being the good “kinabukasan ng bayan” that they planned for. Or is it that the “kinabukasan” will just get darker and darker as time will pass?
The government doesn’t live on principles anymore. Pardon for Erap? C’mon, after painstakingly ousting him and spending millions on his trial, they’re going to give absolute pardon, and with his own conditions, just like that? We would be the laughingstock of the TV-watching, news-reading world. All this just to save face and soften the blow of the opposition against her. Then you should have just asked the Sandiganbayan to acquit him then. At least our judicial system wouldn’t suffer the embarrassment.
Then we have the opposition. An opposition mostly consisting of the same people that called for Erap’s ouster. And it seems that their only purpose is go against anything that the government has planned.
Being an engineer working in the electronic communications field, I agree that the NBN and CyberEducation projects would be a milestone in the improvement on the education system of our country and the improvement of communications and data transfer between Malacañang, its departments until the littlest of barangays. Yup, the deal is tattered with graft, so continue your investigations but let the project continue as well. Then nail down the people who profited financially from this deal.
Hope this mockery of a government we have right now will change soon before a government will just cease to exist. As MLQ has said. “…however bad a Filipino government might be, we can always change it.”
Quo vadis, my Philippines?
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October 2nd, 2007 at 2:40 am
Rod’s entry is more like it, on the dough.
I like to keep it simple: GMA AND HER ADMINISTRATION IS A LAWLESS ADMINISTRATION. IT IS A BOGUS ONE AND ALL ITS DEALING AND WHEELING ARE NULL AND VOID. SHE HAS NEVER BEEN ELECTED AS A PRESIDENT IN A CLEAN CONSTITUTIONALLY HELD ELECTION. AT LEAST ESTRADA WAS ELECTED accordingly. Gloria’s ascension to as a bogus president allows the public to know who are the corrupt, conniving equally lying bastards as this squatting lady in Malacanang. At least we get to see the media men, journalists, and commentators who readily obliged to call this madam as “president” when she is not. We know now who mentored them and now study how we can begin to dissect on a national scale why in spite of such credentials, graduates of Ateneo, UP, San Beda, and Harvard, they failed in one basic subject: integrity and their pagkatao. I like to zero in on that Philippine Military Academy….why on earth they continue to spew out graduates of the likes of FVR, and now these current military generals of the current bogus commander-in-cheap.
September 30th, 2007 at 1:37 pm
After all our Honorable Senators they are just asking questions repeatedly..and they are all not wise either cause we have a saying and maybe they dont know this ” One WORD is enough for a WISE GUY”…Honorable Senators?!!!!!
September 29th, 2007 at 11:07 pm
Our country will go nowhere unless we elect leaders who love their country so much that they are willing to sacrifice their personal and materialistic needs before anything else. When I heard about the NBN deal and the kickbacks involved (in a delayed Filipino news telecast here in the US), I was upset, frustrated and angry. I was wondering how could these people live their everyday lives passing through or witnessing other people barely able to survive poverty and hunger. Don’t they believe in God anymore! They might get away with it now but I don’t think they would be able to defend themselves on judgment day. I pity their souls.
September 29th, 2007 at 10:27 pm
“…we can always change it”? You can try that, if you want to end up as “destabilizer” in jail or already being mercilessly banged down by war-like armed SWATs if just you want to express your dislike publicly in a protest rally.
Did you suffer from not collected garbage in Manila? Do not woory, maybe it was only because the garbage trucks have been used to block protesters from reaching to Malacanang. So, do not rally and the trucks can be used for their real duty.
NBN and CyberEd? NBN should save the government billions of telephone fees. But there would be an immediate and easy way, too. Just make sure that all official phones are used for official matters only and that calls are clear enough to avoid endless back-asking. It would probably save already much more than half the expenses. It is the same than with cars “for official use only” but you can see many of them bringing kids to and fetching them from schools, parking at supermarkets and department stores etc. Hardly “official use”, it’s rather just “use by an official”. And a wireless network of a government, where senseless as well as very sensitive data will flow, being very accessible to anyone who is able to scan such traffic, which really is no any big problem. Hello Garci has been scanned and tapped, even if military and Telco’s say that they have no facilities to do so. The records then only fakes? How then Mr. Bunye got his “original and tampered” CD’s?
CyberEd, it looks nice and very useful. But with tenthousands of schools, very many in remote areas which would need it most, should not first made sure that they all have permanent electricity and that the thousands of service technicians with all needed spare parts are available to secure an uninterrupted teaching?
Lastly about pardon to Erap. Painstakingly ousting him does not automatically meanf fair and correct. After six years of investigation, the whole justice system did not know that plunder needs public money involved? Plunder and corruption, bribe taking, is not the same. Belle was private and jueteng money, if Estrada really got it, would be public money only if the government is running the illegal numbers game.
That Erap would only accept an absolute pardon is easy to understand. Otherwise, he would indirect agree to his crimes while always he stated that he did not do what he was accused for. That’s why he said absolute or nothing and better suffering, counting his age, lifelong jail.
The Sandigan has ruled that Erap did not get Singson’s tax millions, why there is no case to find out where then that money has gone? With Singson’s admitting that he took it from taxes, he admits plunder.
True, the government has not much principles, but on seems to be above all: What is in favor of the govrnment is always correct. What criticises the government is always wrong.
September 29th, 2007 at 9:01 pm
Well, your MPQ certainly is one heck of a president. Didn’t he NOT support agrarian reform that would’ve made the Filipino people claim their land back (which was theirs in the first place) from the “Hacienderos”, the Spanish and Mestizo landlords? Why didn’t he approve it? Just look at his beautiful, pontifical face. What? Do you see it?
He’s a mestizo after all, one who connived with Spanish friars. The friars appeared to have talked MPQ in to dealing that no reform should be done, in which the case that happens they lose their land (thus, complete control o’er the fates of the happless people).
Why be proud of the bastard? His quote was once procured for him to be famous to the other “intellectuals” and “revolutionaries” of that age. Said to impress, indeed. Now don’t you dare have Quezon and Magsaysay on one sentence because it is pure sacrilege of the man who was made a laughingstock just because he had a project about digging deepwells and provoding clean and safe water for the people who couldn’t get some (Basic necessities, amirite?).
But alas, I had just did.
“Quo Vadis”? Crappy.